Yes, I prefer Gnome to KDE by a long way, it’s much nicer looking and easier to use, the trick is to use it the way it’s intended, instead of trying to control it to work how you think it should
When I was a kid, we used to visit relatives a lot. I was 12 as well and listening to adults talk about boring stuff wasn’t cutting it anymore. Most of my relatives had PCs, but none with any games I’d be interested in. So I took my mom’s 8gb USB stick and turned it into a Linux Mint bootable usb.
Now, keep in mind that I didn’t know that much English at the time and honestly I’m amazed I managed to do that, but… I wasn’t aware stuff on the stick would be overwritten, and let’s just say my mom wasn’t too pleased!
Didn’t even solve my problem, since the only game that would run was Terraria, and that with like 5 fps on most of the computers I tried it on!
After reading this question, I got strangely excited the thinking I had a relatively older and/or unique experience. Nope, most all you guys are as old as me. Late 90’s, early 2000…got a red hat CD in some literature…installed it. Now only use Windows if I need to for work which I haven’t needed to for over a decade.
I’m starting to think all the older folks are the ones who left reddit lol. Between stuff like this and the old memes, I’m definitely on the younger side of people here lol.
Oh gosh, it must have been 1999? 2000ish? I have no idea what distro it was or if distros were even a thing. It took me 3-4 days to get all of my driver’s working. I clunked along with it for a week or two until an update borked the system and I didn’t know how to fix it, so I went back to Windows. I tried many more times over the following decades, usually with similar results. About 6 years ago I really learned a lot more about Unix servers and therefore about Linux itself. So I installed it again and I’ve had it on at least one computer in the house ever since then.
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They could have fleshed this out a little bit more. This doesn’t really say anything.
Currently kinda controversial, but currently it’s still Fedora, the xfce4 version.
I had Debian for some time before, but had my apt packages messed up a couple of times to the point I had to entirely re-install. In stable, I was missing sufficiently recent versions, in testing I had other problems.
With Fedora dnf I had less problems recovering, usually more recent versions.
Xfce4 is just more suitable for my needs than Gnome.
I almost never see FreeFileSync mentioned in those threads. It’s the only GUI based app I know that also gives you options to not copy file deletions for example. Also has the option to be automated with crontab. Backups are not fragmented or repackaged so you can browse them just fine. Encryption can be done with Veracrypt.
Android app support, MacOS-grade font rendering, Graphical systemd manager A quick way to scroll to top (on iPhone you can double tap the status bar to jump to top in ANY app)
MacOS font rendering is dreadful on non-Retina/HiDPI displays. If you want similar rendering on Linux, turn font hinting off, and set antialiasing to greyscale only, no subpixel rendering. It will look very similar, if not identical, to modern MacOS.
For non-Retina displays I vastly prefer FreeType’s subpixel antialiasing and “slight” hinting to what MacOS does.
The UI font in MacOS is called SF Pro. If you have access to a Mac you can simply copy the .otf font files over to Linux (they are in /System/Library/Fonts on MacOS) and install and use them there.
If you don’t have access to a Mac, Google Roboto Sans is a very similar design (it was the default Android UI font for several years) and if it’s not already installed by your Linux distro, it’s freely downloadable.
Linux has saved the lives of many during the 2000’s. Friends… Family… Boomers… When they ran windows, I was constantly bothered to fix their computers for them.
Defrag
Unclose-able pop-ups
Multiple browser search bar plugins
Virus
You name it. Started switching them over to Linux. They weren’t running anything beyond email and a browser.
I cannot count how many lives it saved… from me. :)
Yes, not only do I map, I show it to friends and how useful it is to me in specific situations. Bing and apple use osm data just like tomtom or many governments and many apps.
To me, spreading the word is more important than mapping. But I have to map in order to show how good it is. Moreover, it forces me to go out and hike and bike. That’s awesome!
I had to make a full overhaul of my area but now it’s awesome. I couldn’t have done it without others, thank you guys as well!
Looking forward to seeing Cosmic get a alpha/beta release, I love what they’ve shown and since I can never get used to tiling window managers, it looks like a very nice middle ground between DE/WM. And seeing their Virgo laptop, I doubt I’ll get one since EU shipping is a nightmare (Though they’re supposed to open an EU warehouse soon-ish), but more repairable laptops, esp. one using GPLv3 for every bit, is amazing. Looking forward to seeing more about the FW16, not linux per se, but still cool.
Plasma 6, ofc. Way, way in the future (Probably) is seeing more DEs make their way to Wayland, like XFCE/Cinnamon/Budgie
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